Carbon tax repeal passes lower house: MPs hug, high-five

By Mark Kenny, Judith Ireland
Updated June 27 2014 - 9:21am, first published 8:30am
Colleagues congratulate Greg Hunt after Carbon Tax Repeal Bills pass the lower House at Parliament House on Thursday. Picture: ALEX ELLINGHAUSEN
Colleagues congratulate Greg Hunt after Carbon Tax Repeal Bills pass the lower House at Parliament House on Thursday. Picture: ALEX ELLINGHAUSEN

The most politically costly reform in politics in decades is to end with the Senate preparing to wind up Labor's carbon tax and scrap the automatic move to a market-based trading scheme from next year.

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